rEPEAT TO HELP WITH FAMILY VOCABULARY

 teneis A FINAL EL LIBRO, VOCABULAY BANK
Como aprender.
1. los ejercicios del blog
2. repite todo
3. confecciona tu propio "family tree" , con los nombres de tus parientes, y repitatelo.(Personalizar vocabulario funciona a menudo.)

 FAMILY

Introduction: Cinderella (=cenicienta)

Here is Cindrella's  family problem : 
Her  Mother?RIP (= requiescat in pacem =DE.P.). 
Her father: new marriage. 
His new wife , his second wife:  
Cindrella's ........????..-mother.(check below)
This" good woman" already (=ya)has two daughters: 
Cinderella's ............?????-sisters. (check below)

Cindrella's  family problem 

Warm up with the basic unit :

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Family Vocabulary: All  these words are for a family RELATIONSHIP

ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUR RELATIONS OR RELATIVES(=familiares, parientes)

FAMILIAR is   a FALSE FRIEND
The first nine +  words are the most important/las mas importantes las nueve palabras primeras

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Male	female	generic	Spanish
father	mother	parent	padre
son	daughter	child * or Kid	hijo/a/os/as
brother	sister	sibling**	hermano/a etc
-	-	cousin	primo/a etc
uncle	aunt	- say" uncle and aunt," "uncles and aunts", etc
nephew	niece	- similar to above	sobrino/a
Notes:child = kid = child
* 1 child, plural children  *2  remember also: male : boy o sea que"Kid/kids " child/children es la forma generica tanto de "niños "como de "hijos"	female girl	"child" or "kid"	niño/nene, etc
** sibling,  palabra generica antigua que cayo en desuso pero que vuelve ahora

Difficulty: your brain looks for an individual equivalent for yerno, suegro, padrino, etc/el cerebro busca palabras equivalentes uno por uno
BUT  ENGLISH DOES IT ALL WITH AFFIXES/Ingles hace todo con prefijos y sufijos


Exercise :Repeat  those  first nine etc  words with the following affixes

Prefixes:

 Gran(d)- for 3 lineal generations:

los abuelos: grandparents, a grandparent, grandmother, grandfather, grandfathers, , etc etc  

los nietos: grandchild, grandchildren, grandson, grandsons   grandaughter, grandaughters, etcetc

Step-  for relationships deriving from remarriage.= the Spanish suffix-astro/a Think of cinderella! so: Stepfather, stepmother, stepchildren, stepson,stepdaughter,stepbrother, stepsister,etc

God-  for relationships deriving from baptism. Think of Al Pacino!

Say Godparent, Godparents, Godfather, Godmother, godchild, Godchildren, Godson, Godaughter, Godsons, etc
Half-  same as in Spanish : half brother, etc 




Foster- for relationships via fostering(=acojida).(Centuries old in England, relatively new in Spain(=acojida)) Say: Foster parents, fosterfather, foster- etc etc

Suffix 
-inlaw mother inlaw, brotherinlaw, soninlaw etc etc
for relationships from marriage/, como el Spanish adjective "politico"
Calcula primero el equivalente de  yerno, suegro, etc


Prefix 
Great- for extra generations  Great -granparents, great grand children :4 generations =vis-

Great -great - grandaparents: 5 generations, = tartar , and so on



NB :Dificultad para la vida real, mas alla de NB1: sugerencia del profe no aprender hasta que las circumstancias te obligan
Prefijos y sufijos tambien se aplican a diminutivos :
father  , = Paw,Pa, Dad, Daddy, Pop etc
mother  = Ma, Mum, Mummy, Mom
Ejemplos.
Mi madrina = my godmother= my Godmama ,
 Grandpa = abuelito, y asi


Relationships
Relationships
Relationships





Stages of standard  Relationships between  a man and a woman 


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Stage	Male	female	generic	Group ( very rarely , pair =couple)
Married	Husband	Wife	Spouse, "better half"= 1/2 naranja	A married couple
For many centuries, couples just “living together”	Common-law husband	Common-law wife		A ( commonlaw) married couple
Wedding-day and honeymoon only	Groom or bridegroom	bride		A Newly-wed couple, a just married couple, “newly-weds” “just-marrieds”
Formally engaged , but single	Fiancé	Fiancé or fiancée	?fiance?	An engaged couple. Cf to be engaged
Dating  or? (officially, SINGLE( = soltero/a/os/as))	boy-friend	girl-friend	My?	A (?) couple (Once: a courting couple) NB "boy and girl " talk in relationships now covers people 90 or 100 years old.
First( ‘) date(s), between single people			My/etc date	A couple on a date (?) cf a blind date, double-dating(2 couples) etc
Other words :
Picking-up, chatting up			A pick-up * be careful= casual tabu, offensive	Cf to pick up, to chat up, many other more tabu synonyms
Irregular and extramarital liasons	Toyboy , gigolo	Very old fashioned: Mistress,  kept woman
			Lover	At any moment or condition, as in Spanish “amante”, the relationship will be physical or not depending on the context
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Politically correct : Anything modern &/or  , indefinite and /or indescribable			Partner	This covers, say  5 men+ 3 women+ + 3 indefinables+ a gorilla .They’re all partners! And  a man and his car?

Lamentablemente, pero asi es como se habla, casi identico al castellano:
Prefijo : "ex-"
p.ej: His exgirlfriend is a nurse.
Tambien ajectivos y participios pasados: divorced, separated






NOW 
pARA El alumno mas atrevido, no es tarea fail para nb1


Watch this video, several times or click:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdFPDjtX2Q4

Hay muchas estructuras  etc que no conoceis  aun , mas querria que usaiass la cancion para practicar este vocabulario con sufijos y afijos.

Trama : se dice que esto si paso  en el s.xix en the "Wild West" de las yankilandias : varon de 23 se casa con vuida bella de  30y  pocos. La nueva esposa tenia hija de 16+ , y el Padre de 40 años del primer hombre, viudo el, se enamora de esta ultima y se casa con ella, Los dos matrimonios tenien prole, ¿que relacion de parentesco tiene cada cual? ( el primero en casarse es su propio abuelo.Calcula.)


Exercise: fill in then click above link 
Put in:Grandpa widow father uncle Dad son daughter husband wife mother' grandmother grandchild, stepmother brother-in-law brother son-in-law

I 'm My Own ……..  It sounds funny, I know, But it really is so, Oh, I'm my own …………….I'm my own ....... (x2)

Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three, I was married to a ……………….who was pretty as could be.

This ………………..had a grown-up …………………who had hair of red. 

My……………….. fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my …………….my ………………….and changed my very life, 

My ………………..was my………………., cause she was my ………………s wife.

To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy, I soon became the …………………….of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a …………………….to………….., 

And so became my……………….., though it made me very sad.

For if he was my………………., then that also made him ………………

Of the …………………….s grown-up…………………., who, of course, was my. …………………..

………………..'s wife then had a …………….who kept him on the run, And he became my……………………, for he was my ………………..'s son.

My………………. is now my……………….. s…………….., and it makes me blue, 

Because, although she is my…………….., she's my………………………., too.

Now if my …………is my………………., then I'm her …………………………..

And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,

For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw As ………………….of my………………….., I am my own……………………!

I'm my own…………(x2)It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so, Oh, I'm my own ………………………

You also need this vocab: widow, = viuda; to wed, wed/wedded, wed/wedded = to marry=to get married, cf  a wedding=una boda;  wild=savage, not domesticated, in a natural state; idiom: a bouncing baby boy, to bounce = rebotar, like a ball;  idiom to keep s.o. on the run, = to keep them very busy, leave them no time; Note Dad=Father=Pa=Paw

Recognize all the family words, repeat them to yourself

NOW 
Follow along karoke style withis one, watch the relationship diagram!


another version, you may enjoy the images

**para cuando tocahay= There is/are
There are four people in my family

In my boyfriend's family there are seven people

Now there are only two of us at home 

 I think there  are three of you who can help me.

There are four people in my family/

there are four of us 

We are four people in my family/

we are four 

In English numbers like this go THERE TO BE.....+ or- of...

Correct the following: (answers after the first video: there are four people in my family)

In my boyfriend's family they are seven people

Now we are only two at home 

 I think you are three who can help me.